Web Services: A Java™ Developer’s Guide Using E-Speak

7.3. Hotel Ecosystem Revisited

Remember the Hotel ecosystem from Chapter 5 ? In that chapter, we deployed all the e-Speak components on a single service engine. However, in a real solution, the Hotel services and the travel client are different companies, with their own identities and networks. We can extend this thought and envision a grander ecosystem in which the individual Airline services and the Airline consortium also deploy their own respective service engines. This would translate into separate service engines for each that are deployed within their own hardware and network infrastructures. Figure 7.5 shows this new Hotel ecosystem deployment.

Figure 7.5. Multicore Hotel ecosystem.

In Figure 7.5, notice that we deploy the Hotel services ...